Something of a compromise.

[elfs]

As it turns out, there is a setting in Flickr that allows you to keep photos out of the sight of public catalogers and browsers, while still allowing you to use the link to the photos. If you set the privacy to "Family," you can still access the photo with a URL for use in blogs, but it will not show up in other individual's tag collections or catalogs.

Unfortunately, it does change the URL so I'm having to go back and fix up some older posts, and some images might be marked "unavailable" for a while until I hunt down the blog entries in which they were used.

I'm more than a little annoyed by the necessity of it all. Bleah!